1. Now read this memo from Gerd Busch ag to his secretaly. Use the information to write a letter of reply to Anne croft from the secretary, on Mr Busch’s behalf.

MEMO To: Birgit Lange Date: 14 June 19___ From: G.Busch Please reply to this letter. Send Miss Croft a catalogue and price-list and quote her c.i.f. prices to London. Mention also the following: 2-year guarantee on all our products Highest-quality materials used No credit terms (our prices highly competitive due to small profit margins) Cash discount of 3 per cent offered Do encourage her to contact us again. Thanks.

Telexes

Telegrams sent with the help of teleprinters (teletypes) are called telexes.

Telexes are mostly used for information which it is urgent for you to have or to pass. The Telex network is world-wide and links over 400,000 subscribers in over fifty different countries. How wide is the Telex network nowadays can be seen just from one example: only one Japanese company “Mitsubisi Serdzi” has got 125 teleprinters all over the world and 60 teleprinters in Japan itself. They are all linked with the Central Computer Exchange of the company in Tokyo by communication liners of 450,000 km long, which is 11 times longer than the circumference of the Earth.

All telex numbers are published in the Telex Directory. Company telex number(s) is (are) given on printed company-forms (company letter-paper) in the letterhead or at the bottom of the page: e.g. TLX No 783290, Telex 86286 Allman G, Telex: 667844 Simcar G. The telex system provides a 24-hour service, and messages may be sent to a subscriber even when his telepriter is unattended, if it has not been switched off. So it is possible to send messages at night ready to be dealt to be dealt with first thing next morning. All calls are charged on a time-and-distance basis.

In addition to standard telex equipment, which transmits messages as they are typed, there is special equipment for the transmission of messages automatically at high speed. This equipment may be fitted to the teleprinter and transmit messages on perforated tape at a continuous speed of 400 characters (or 66 words) a minute.

The advantages of automatic transmission are obvious.

Here are Some

International Telex Abbreviations which may be useful to remember:

ABS = absent, office closed

ATTN = for the attention of

FIN = end of message

NC = lines engaged

OCC = customer engaged

OK = agreed

PLS/SVP = please

RPT = please repeat message

RYT = reference your telex

TX/TLX =telex

EEE/XXXX = an error, the next word replaces the last word

Telexes should be short, exact and clear. They are often written without the Opening Salutation or the Complimentary Closing and without paragraphs. Very often conjunctions, prepositions, pronouns and punctuation marks may be omitted if it does not impair the meaning of the message. To mark the end of the sentence the word “stop” or full stop may be used. As a rule no capital letters are used in telex messages.